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Yes! On Law Department Benchmarking... Just Do Most of it Yourself

Rees Morrison's latest post on Law Department Managment Blog resonates with me.  He encourages readers not to take to heart a recent suggestion, made in Harvard Business Review, "Don't Benchmark Competitors."  The General Counsel and Legal Department should have some idea of how they compare in terms of spend and performance with other firms of similar size and category.  The good news, from my perspective, is that a lot of the tools you need to do self benchmarking are already baked into the Mitratech product set.  With TeamConnect, you get an Executive Dashboard that shows how your department is doing in terms of budget, on a case by case basis, and more.   Adding our Business Objects integration adds even more potential for insight into your department's key performance metrics. As data emerges on norms and benchmark performance standards across legal departments in your industry, you can use TeamConnect's analytics capabilities to run your own basic benchmarking study.

Highlights of the IQPC Corporate Litigation Exchange

We just wrapped up three days at the IQPC Corporate Litigat ion Exchange at the lovely Lansdowne Resort in Virginia.  It was a lively conference, full of thought provoking presentations and engaging chats with clients and prospects.  We were very pleased to see our client, Douglas Stevens, Assistant General Counsel - Litigation at Aon, describe how his company has pursued a preferred counsel program, vendor scorecards, and constant case assessments to achieve improvements in his department's performance. Joseph Speelman, Associate General Counsel - Litigation for LyondellBasell Industries delivered an outstanding opening session for the event, where he argued for justice, integrity and consistency in defending against lawsuits.  Mitratech client Amazon.com's David Zapolsky, VP and Associate General Counsel, walked the audience through a focused and thorough look at conducting internal investigations, especially those related to HR issues.

Overall, it seems as if most legal departments are continuing to struggle to keep up increased litigation workloads in the recession, though most of the AGC-Ls we talked to are not overwhelmed... yet. 

Hugh Taylor

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